According to foreign media reports, Nissan is a pioneer in the electric vehicle industry, but the company has lost the first-mover advantage gained by Leaf, and the Japanese carmaker is now trying to catch up with companies such as Tesla, Hyundai and Kia.
One way for Nissan to make its future electric cars more popular is to lower prices, with a senior executive recently announcing that its next-generation electric models will cost 30 per cent less to produce than current electric cars, such as the Leaf and Ariya.
J é r é mie Papin, chief executive of Nissan’s US division, said the company would achieve cost savings by “simplifying” and “increasing versatility in many models”.
This means that Nissan electric vehicles will not only have fewer parts, but will also be able to share parts among many models.
Nissan Papin also predicts that by 2030 the prices of electric and electric cars will be the same as those of internal combustion vehicles.
One way for Nissan to achieve this is to abandon plans to bet all-out on solid-state batteries by 2028.
At present, solid-state batteries are still expensive, but without a breakthrough, the price of solid-state batteries is not expected to fall to the point where Nissan can reduce costs by 30% by relying on solid-state battery technology alone.
Nissan may continue to study lithium-ion batteries to achieve cost savings.
However, Nissan is not abandoning solid-state batteries and is setting up a pilot production facility in Japan, where it plans to start testing the production of solid-state batteries and battery packs.
Although solid-state batteries are still much more expensive than lithium batteries, Nissan believes they are still the key to reducing the price of electric vehicles in the future.
The company aims to reduce costs to $65 per kilowatt-hour by 2028.
Nissan plans to release 30 new models by 2026, 16 of which will be electrified, but the company did not say how many are pure electric vehicles.
If Nissan is to catch up with its competitors, Nissan needs to launch more all-electric models, and it is not enough for the Leaf and Aliya.
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